Proverbs 7
1 My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions [as you would] [MET] [guard] a treasure.
son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
2 Obey my commands, and [as a result you will] live [a good life]. Consider the things that I teach you [to be very precious]; guard them, [just] like you protect your eyes.
to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
3 Tie my commands around your fingers [in order that they will remind you to obey them]. Always keep them in mind [MET].
to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
4 [Love] wisdom [like you love] your sister. Understand what is wise, [and let that be as dear to you as] members of your family.
to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
5 If you are wise and if you understand what is wise [PRS], you will not [sleep with] an immoral woman; you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you [to sleep with her] by what she says.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
6 One day, I was standing at the window inside my house, and I looked outside.
for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
7 I saw some young men who did not have good sense. Among them was a man who was very foolish.
and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
8 He crossed the street near [the house of] an immoral woman. He was walking along the path toward her house
to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
9 at twilight, when it was getting dark [DOU].
in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
10 Suddenly the woman came out to see/meet him. She was dressed (seductively/like a prostitute), wanting to persuade him to sleep with her.
and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
11 She was a loud talker, one who was rebellious; she [SYN] never stayed at home.
to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
12 She often went into the city streets and plazas/markets, waiting to trap some man.
beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
13 [When she saw that young man], she put her arms around him and kissed him. Then without being a bit ashamed, she said,
and to strengthen: hold in/on/with him and to kiss to/for him be strong face her and to say to/for him
14 “I have [some meat that is left over from] a sacrifice that I made today [to maintain fellowship with Yahweh]; I have fulfilled/done what I promised him that I would do.
sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
15 And now I have come out to meet/see you. I was searching for you, and [now] I have found you!
upon so to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet you to/for to seek face of your and to find you
16 I have put on my bed sheets/bedspreads that were made from [very fine] linen [that were imported] {[people brought]} from Egypt.
covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
17 I have sprinkled [sweet-smelling] perfumes on my bed— myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.
to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
18 Come [with me]; let us enjoy having sex until [tomorrow] morning. Let’s enjoy making love.
to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
19 My husband is not at home; he has gone away on a long journey.
for nothing [the] man: husband in/on/with house: home his to go: went in/on/with way: journey from distant
20 He is carrying a wallet filled with money, and he will not return until the middle of this month.”
bundle [the] silver: money to take: take in/on/with hand: to his to/for day [the] full moon to come (in): come house: home his
21 [So] she persuaded him by [her] enticing/tempting words. She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.
to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
22 [And] he went with her immediately, like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered, or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap,
to go: follow after her suddenly like/as cattle to(wards) slaughter to come (in): come and like/as anklet to(wards) discipline: bonds fool(ish)
23 where it will remain/stay until someone shoots an arrow into its liver [and kills it]. [He was] like a bird that flew into a trap. He did not know that (it would cost him his life/he would die as a result).
till to cleave arrow liver his like/as to hasten bird to(wards) snare and not to know for in/on/with soul: life his he/she/it
24 My son, listen to what I say; pay [careful] attention to my words.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
25 Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that. Do not go where she goes.
not to turn aside to(wards) way: conduct her heart your not to go astray in/on/with path her
26 She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
